Monday, December 28th, 2009
The company is pitching a little-known naval variant of its Gripen NG fighter, called the Sea Gripen, which is intended to be capable of both CATOBAR as well as STOBAR carrier operations. »
Tags: aircraft carrier, CATOBAR, Gripen, Gripen IN, Gripen NG, Indian Air Force, Indian Navy, Intelligence, MMRCA, MTOW, naval fighter, Peter Nilsson, Saab AB, Sea Gripen, STOBAR, Swedish Armed Forces
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Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
The Ministry of Defense has allowed user trials of five weapons systems that were held up due to allegations of corruption against two of the vendors involved in the trials, ST Kinetics and Israel Military Industries. »
Tags: Bofors, CBI, Central Bureau of Investigation, Denel, IMI, Israel Military Industries, Ministry of Defense, Singapore Technologies, ST Kinetics
Posted in Industry Update | 4 Comments »
Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
The Indian Navy's submarine strength is projected to fall by 30 per cent in 2015 and 50 per cent in 2020, at the current pace of the acquisition process. »
Tags: Cabinet Committee on Security, Cochin Shipyard Limited, Defense Acquisition Council, Foxtrot class, Garden Reach Shipbuilders, HDW, Hindustan Shipyard Limited, Indian Navy, Kilo class, Larsen and Toubro, Mazagaon Docks Limited, P-75, Project 75, Project 75 (India), Scorpene, submarine, Vis
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Monday, December 21st, 2009
India and Nepal are set to agree on a defense agreement known as the Indo-Nepal Defense Cooperation Framework. »
Tags: Armored Personnel Carrier, General Chhatra Man Singh Gurung, Gorkha, howitzer, Indian Army, Indo-Nepal Defense Cooperation Framework, Indo-Nepal Treaty of Peace and Friendship of 1950, INSAS, mortar, Nepal Army
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Monday, December 21st, 2009
The Director General of the Israeli Ministry of Defense, Brigadier General Pinchas Buchris is to arrive in India on Monday to hold meetings on Tuesday with officials from the Indian Ministry of Defense and security establishment. »
Tags: Admiral Nirmal Verma, Air Chief Marshal PV Naik, AK Antony, AWACS, Barak, Brigadier General Pinchas Buchris, Defense Minister, Defense Secretary, Director General, General Deepak Kapoor, Indian Air Force, Indian Army, Indian Navy, Indo-Israeli Joint Working Group on Counter-Terrorism, Indo-Israeli Joint Working Group on Defense Cooperation, Israel Defense Forces, Lieutenant General Gabi Ashkenazi, Ministry of Defense, MK Narayanan, MRSAM, National Security Adviser, Phalcon, Pradeep Kumar, RISAT 2, SPYDER, TecSAR, UAV, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
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Monday, December 21st, 2009
Top Indian defense and nuclear scientists have issued warnings of serious deficiencies in India's thermonuclear weapons capability. »
Tags: ADA, Advanced Technology Vessel, Aeronautical Development Agency, Army Radio Engineering Network, Atomic Energy Commission, Atomic Energy Regulatory Board, ATV, BARC, BEL, Bhabha Atomic Research Center, Bharat Electronics Limited, Brigadier M R Narayanan, Captain S Prabhala, Defense Research Development Organization, Dr. A D Damodaran, Dr. A Gopalakrishnan, Dr. AN Prasad, Dr. C K Mathews, Dr. Jaipal Mittal, Dr. K Santhanam, Dr. KS Jayaraman, Dr. PK Iyengar, Dr. SR Valluri, DRDO, IAEA, Indian Army, Indian Navy, Indian Science Writers Association, Indira Gandhi Center for Atomic Research, INS Arihant, LCA, Light Combat Aircraft, Ministry of Defense, National Aerospace Laboratory, Nature, Nuclear Fuel Complex, Nuclear Physics Division, Pokhran II, Professor Ashok Parthasarathi, Raja Ramana Fellow, Rear Admiral JJ Baxi, Regional Research Laboratory, Special Materials Plant, Tejas, Weapons and Electronics Systems Organization
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Monday, December 14th, 2009
Vivek Lall, head of Boeing’s defense unit in India, talks about how growing US-India relations have helped Boeing’s prospects, in a wide-ranging conversation. »
Tags: Admiral Gorshkov, AESA, Apache-AH64, Bharat Electronics Limited, Boeing, Boeing 737 AEW&C, C-17, Chinook-CH47, Dassault, Dr. Vivek Lall, End User Monitoring Agreement, F/A-18, Hindustan Aeronautics Limited, Indian Air Force, Indian Army, Indian Navy, INS Vikramaditya, INS Viraat, Integrated Defense Systems, Larsen & Toubro, MiG-29 KUB, MiG-29K, MiG-35, Ministry of Defense, MMRCA, NASA, P8I, Rafale, Super Hornet, Tata, United States Navy
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Saturday, December 12th, 2009
The Indian Navy says the Sri Lankan fishing vessel Win Marine refused to follow advice to head north and caught fire before sinking. »
Tags: Indian Coast Guard, Indian Navy, Sri Lankan Navy, Win Marine
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Saturday, December 12th, 2009
The Sri Lankan fishing vessel Win Marine sank in the Bay of Bengal on Friday around midnight with three crew members. »
Tags: Bay of Bengal, Exclusive Economic Zone, Indian Coast Guard, Indian Navy, Sri Lanka
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Saturday, December 12th, 2009
Bad weather has prevented the navy from arresting the Sri Lankan fishing vessel that took two Indian Coast Guard sailors captive, releasing them Friday. »
Tags: Dornier, Eastern Fleet, ICGS Priyadarshini, ICGS Sarang, Indian Coast Guard, Indian Navy, Maritime Zones of India Act, Sri Lankan Navy, Win Marine
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Wednesday, December 9th, 2009
Video footage of the INS Godavari combating pirates in the Gulf of Aden. »
Tags: Gulf of Aden, Indian Navy, INS Godavari, Piracy
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